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Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it...
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In order to study the effect of sector-specific regulation on industry behavior and market outcome, regulatory density … must be measured. The "Polynomics Telecommunication Regulation Index 2012" aims to provide such a measure for …
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This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that (1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; (2) competition and privatization reduces …
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The distinguishing feature of two-sided markets is that the pricing structure, that is, the relative prices charged to each side, matters. Regulators need to understand and account for the interdependence of prices in both sides. Some interventions that lower the prices on one side can result in...
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single market in the European Union is impeded by absent or imperfect regulation conducted at the national level, which fails …
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regulation of the operators enjoying significant market power, which has now been aligned on competition law principles. This …
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We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act collectively in setting a uniform settlement rate for inbound...
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forms of informal forces, which may translate into different implications for competition regulation. Based on extensive …
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Coupled with the early wave of privatization in the 80s of state-owned telecom enterprises, the reform trend in the telecom market has shifted toward the market liberalization since the 90s, resulting in extended multilateral negotiations on the introduction of competition into basic...
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